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This didn't go with the major theme of my blog, so I cut it out. But then I was thinking about it and wanted to mention it:

I thought it was very interesting that Ananda believed that it was when the poet himself was “under such a heightened state of emotion as rasa that he becomes capable of writing the suggestive poetry that will transfer this rasa to his hearers. The process is illustrated by the story of the first poet, Valmiki...” (Ingalls, 18). I question this, as didn’t Valmiki experience soka, which is not a rasa but the corresponding bhava for the rasa of karuna. So wasn't Valmiki experiencing bhava?

What do you guys think?